Chap.' 9. according to SEMA T T H E VV. 485 tobe hadupon noother terms, Chrift may keep his heaven to him- Pelf; hee'l have none. How many have we now adaies, that mutt be gainers by their religion, which mutt be another Dian to the craftfmaífers. They are refolved howfoever to look no- thing, fuffer nothing, but rather kick up all yeroboamogravior jattura regionis quam religiones. The King of Navarre told Be- za, that in the caule of Religion he would launch no further into the fea,then he might be lure co return Cafe to the haven, A num- ber of fuchPolitick profellours we have, that come to Chrift (as thisyoung man did) haftily, but depart heavily, when once it comes toa whole-fateof all for Chrift, which yet is the firft leffon, the removens prohibens. Verfe 23. A rich man ball hardly enter] With that burden ofthickclay, that camels-bunch on his back : heaven is á ftately pallace with anarrow portall; there mu(t beboth ffripping and flraining, ere one can get through this (trait gate. Thegreateft wealth is ordinarily tutnoured up with the greateft fwelch of re- bellion againft God. Vermin divitiarnm eft uperbia, faith 4n- gufline, Pride breedsin wealth, as the worm doth in the apple, and he is a great rich man indeed, and greater then hisriches, that Both not think himfelf great, becaufe he is rich. Charge thole that are rich that they be not high-minded or the devil will Icon blowup filch a blab in theme if they watch not) and that they traitnot in uncertain riches, fo as to make their gold their Cod, as all worldlings do,and worfe: for could we but ripup fuch mens. hearts we fhould finde written them The God of this prefent World. They that minde earthly things have deftruftion fir their end, Philip.3. Have them we may and ufe them too, but minds themwe may not, nor love them, r 7ohn 2.15. that's fpirituall harlotry, fuch as Gods foul hated), and he fmitethbit hands at, F4iy 22.14. Verfe 24 It is eater fir a camel, &c.] Or, cable.rope, as (erne render it. Either ferves ; for it is a proverbial) fpeech, (er- tingforth the difficulty of the thing. Difficile eft, faith St Eh e- rom, ut prnfcntibgts bonis quis fiuatur ei fïgturis, ut G:e entree: clic mentem re fciat, ut de deli( if s ad delicias tranfeat; ut in roelo e in terra gloriofus apparent. Pope Adrian thiuxth Paid than , . nothing befell himnioreunhappy in all his life, then that he had t ``h. n eP- been head of the Church, and i Sanarch of the Chriftian common F w altb, When 1. full entered into orders, Paid another Pope, Pit, Q±4 Arduares litt eft opibcci non tragiere mores. Et cum tot cr,e!ot viceriß e Numam I,tual t Timt6.17. gäre. À P tJ j. ?. Y junem flou tí[03,
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